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001 - Foreward · New Science of Controlled Breathing, Vol. 1 and 2

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  Speaker 1: Section one of the New Science of Controlled Breathing, Volume
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  Speaker 1: one and two. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox
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  Speaker 1: of Controlled Breathing, Volume one and two by Edward Lanko Forward.
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  Speaker 1: The staff of life is not bread, it is breath.
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  Speaker 1: For you can live days without drink and weeks without food,
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  Speaker 1: but you can only live a few minutes without air.
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  Speaker 1: You would think, inasmuch as the human race has been
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  Speaker 1: breathing for at least five hundred thousand years, that men
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  Speaker 1: and women today would know how to breathe. As a
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  Speaker 1: matter of fact, however, consciously controlled breathing is known, but
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  Speaker 1: to very few people. These few fortunate individuals have been
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  Speaker 1: rewarded by nature in the way Nature always rewards those
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  Speaker 1: who follow her laws. She blesses them with magnificent constitutions,
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  Speaker 1: tireless energy, and the strength and beauty that comes from
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  Speaker 1: radiant health, skin that shows the rich blood flowing under
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  Speaker 1: its clear surfaces, sparkling eyes, and the vivacious manner that
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  Speaker 1: attracts and holds the attention of both men and women.
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  Speaker 1: Alike this nature does for those who rightly use her
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  Speaker 1: great gift. Of the few in all the world who
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  Speaker 1: know the inmost secrets of the art of breathing. Edward Lanko,
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  Speaker 1: the talented author of this course, is perhaps the greatest.
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  Speaker 1: The editor of Physical Culture magazine says of him. Mister
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  Speaker 1: Edward Lanko is rated by many critics as the greatest
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  Speaker 1: Vasso in America. The richness, residence, depth, power, flegs, flexibility,
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  Speaker 1: and cello like beauty of his voice has not been
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  Speaker 1: duplicated in America for years. Mister Lanco is thirty five
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  Speaker 1: years old, weight two hundred five pounds stripped height six
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  Speaker 1: feet one one half inches, chest forty four one half
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  Speaker 1: inches waist thirty eight inches. He is Russian American born
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  Speaker 1: in Terrytown, New York. In nineteen o two, at the
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  Speaker 1: age of nineteen, Lanko was offered the principal base engagement
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  Speaker 1: with the Bostonians by Barnaby and MacDonald, which he declined
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  Speaker 1: on the account of a desire for further study. The
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  Speaker 1: same year, he was offered a tour with Adelina Patti,
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  Speaker 1: which he declined for the same reason. In nineteen o six,
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  Speaker 1: he started his career in Europe, where he sang at
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  Speaker 1: all the principal opera houses and in concerts. In nineteen eleven,
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  Speaker 1: he returned to America and made his debut on the
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  Speaker 1: opening evening of the season with the Boston Opera Company.
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  Speaker 1: Before going to Boston, he studied Palease a Millissande in Paris.
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  Speaker 1: At the first rehearsal at which the famous composer W. C.
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  Speaker 1: Was present, he received the superlative compliment from the composer,
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  Speaker 1: who said to him, in your voice, I hear for
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  Speaker 1: the first the mystic tambre of voice I thought of
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  Speaker 1: when I composed the part fifteen years ago. Mister Lanco
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  Speaker 1: sang all the nine performances of this opera in Boston
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  Speaker 1: with Madame LeBlanc and Mary Garden in nineteen twelve to
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  Speaker 1: nineteen thirteen. At the first performance of The Magic Flute
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  Speaker 1: at the Metropolitan Opera House, the management brought mister Lanco
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  Speaker 1: over from Boston for the first half dozen performances, where
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  Speaker 1: three of the New York newspaper critics pronounced him the
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  Speaker 1: greatest basso in America, one critic saying, a voice of
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  Speaker 1: amazing beauty. He is by long odds the greatest basseau
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  Speaker 1: in America. In April nineteen seventeen, while attending a garden
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  Speaker 1: party at Governor's Island, mister Lanko noticed that the speaking
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  Speaker 1: voice of Colonel Hartman was naturally exceedingly well placed or resonant,
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  Speaker 1: and asked the colonel if he had studied to produce
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  Speaker 1: it that way, to which the Colonel answered, no, I
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  Speaker 1: always spoke that way, and always wanted to find out
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  Speaker 1: how I did it so as to show it to
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  Speaker 1: younger officers, but I couldn't. Mister Lanco then showed the
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  Speaker 1: colonel by pressing his hand on the colonel's abdomen, how
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  Speaker 1: by nature he used that organ in support, a support
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  Speaker 1: which most of us had to learn, but which came
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  Speaker 1: quite natural to him. The quick mind of Colonel Hartman
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  Speaker 1: absorbed the value of the idea at once, and he
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  Speaker 1: asked mister Lanko to teach the subject at Camp Gordon, Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: the largest development camp in the country. Here, official instructors
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  Speaker 1: of various subjects from all the other camps in the
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  Speaker 1: country from Maine to San Francisco were gathered for special instructions.
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  Speaker 1: From six forty five a m Mister Lanco would have
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  Speaker 1: classes ranging from twenty five to one thousand, one hundred,
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  Speaker 1: and gradually developed forty one officer assistant instructors, so that
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  Speaker 1: several thousand men were doing the work at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: The commanding General, Brigadier General William Sage, and all of
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  Speaker 1: his staff were in his morning class. After the third week,
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  Speaker 1: mister Lanco was asked to mess at headquarters and live
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  Speaker 1: at the former home of Brigadier General Shaw. The results
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  Speaker 1: of his work were more than astounding. Men who had
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  Speaker 1: apparently no voices at all, and who had pain in
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  Speaker 1: the throat while giving commands suddenly found that it was
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  Speaker 1: a pleasure to use the voice. On the other hand,
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  Speaker 1: men whose health was run down so that they were
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  Speaker 1: on their way to forced retirement were so changed in
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  Speaker 1: appearance that their civilian friends asked them what they were doing.
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  Speaker 1: Surgeon General Rupert Blue thought so highly of the health
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  Speaker 1: building power of mister Lanco's course of instruction that he
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  Speaker 1: made the following statement to mister Lanco in Washington, use
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  Speaker 1: my name for anything you like in connection with your
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  Speaker 1: system of teaching breath control. Another health authority said, give
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  Speaker 1: the world two generations of children taught this trained scientific
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  Speaker 1: method of breathing, and you'll make the community free of consumption.
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  Speaker 1: Many of the world's greatest singers have profited by mister
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  Speaker 1: Lanco's instructions. Mary Garden, director of the Chicago Opera Company
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  Speaker 1: and famous Prima Donna, has written, half the world does
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  Speaker 1: not know that correct breathing means health, happiness, and contentment.
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  Speaker 1: I had the joy of learning this truth from mister Lanko.
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  Speaker 1: Every day my voice became better, and my health too.
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  Speaker 1: His work is really great. In this complete course of lessons,
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  Speaker 1: mister Lanko tells all the secrets of his wonderful work.
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  Speaker 1: Within a few days, you too, by following the simple
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  Speaker 1: directions mister Lanko advises, may well be on the road
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  Speaker 1: to such health, strength, mental clearness, and physical beauty as
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  Speaker 1: you have never known before. For you will be working
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  Speaker 1: in harmony with nature and with Nature's greatest and beneficent laws.
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  Speaker 1: The publisher end of section one, read by Martha Heaton,
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  Speaker 1: October twenty twenty three,